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Table 1 Demographic characteristics

From: Patient activation in Europe: an international comparison of psychometric properties and patients’ scores on the short form Patient Activation Measure (PAM-13)

Variable

Danish

Dutch

German

Norwegian

USA

Mean age (SD)

62.2 (7.1)

58.9 (15.9)

54.4 (16.5)

58.3 (12.5)

Range 45 - 97

Age groups (N)

328

1829

488

2539

1469

 Younger than 45

3 (1 %)

378 (21 %)

132 (27 %)

353 (14 %)

0 (0 %)

 45–54 years

48 (15 %)

239 (13 %)

110 (23 %)

485 (19 %)

512 (38 %)

 55–64 years

143 (44 %)

476 (26 %)

96 (20 %)

800 (32 %)

398 (28 %)

 65–74 years

128 (39 %)

428 (23 %)

87 (18 %)

583 (23 %)

290 (20 %)

 75 and older

6 (2 %)

308 (17 %)

63 (13 %)

318 (13 %)

188 (15 %)

Sex (N)

328

1829

487

2284

1469

 Male

183 (56 %)

800 (44 %)

240 (49 %)

961 (42 %)

543 (37 %)

 Female

145 (44 %)

1029 (56 %)

247 (51 %)

1323 (58 %)

926 (63 %)

Health status (N)

320

1823

480

2431

 

 Excellent

12 (4 %)

36 (2 %)

80 (17 %)

31 (1 %)

255 (18 %)

 Very good

79 (25 %)

192 (11 %)

188 (39 %)

277 (11 %)

465 (31 %)

 Good

181 (57 %)

1005 (55 %)

121 (25 %)

983 (40 %)

411 (28 %)

 Fair

42 (13 %)

525 (29 %)

78 (16 %)

867 (36 %)

236 (16 %)

 Poor

6 (2 %)

65 (4 %)

13 (3 %)

273 (11 %)

102 (7 %)